Stonehenge Playlist 1-16-09

This week's 40th anniversary Classic Rock Album was the earth-shattering mystical-hairy-commune-rock debut of Amon Duul II: 'Phallus Dei'.

Oh my word this video is incredible:

Artist - Album -- Song

• Walter Wegmuller - Tarot -- Der Herrscher
• Quicksilver Messenger Service - Quicksilver -- Fire Brothers
• Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets -- Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
• Hawkwind - In Search of Space -- Master of the Universe
• Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come - Kingdom Come -- The Hymn
• John Mayall' Bluesbreakers w/ Eric Clapton -- Hideaway
• It's a Beautiful Day - Choice Quality Stuff -- Creed of Love
• The Byrds - Untitled -- Love of the Bayou
• Mike Harrison - Mike Harrison -- Pain
• Brian Auger's Oblivian Express - 2nd Wind -- Truth
• Mc5 - Motor City is Burning -- Looking at You
• Mott the Hoople - Mad Shadows -- Thunderbuck Ram
• Funkadelic - Maggot Brain -- Hit it and Quit it
• Can - Tago Mago -- Bring me Coffee or Tea
• Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride -- You Can't Get Away
• Camel - Mirage -- Freefall
• Beatles - Yellow Submarine -- Hey Bulldog
• Thunderclap Newman - Hollywood Dream -- The Old Cornmill
• Fat Mattress - Fat Mattress -- All Night Drinker
• Humble Pie - Rocking the Filmore -- I don't need no Doctor
• Flash - In the Can -- Lifeline
• Bloodrock - 2 - DOA
• Little Free Rock - Little Free Rock -- Making Time
• Procol Harum Broken Barricades -- Poor Muhammed
• Hard Stuff - Bullet Proof -- Hobo
• Bob Seger System - Mongrel -- Mongrel
• Ten Years After - Recorded Live -- Silly Thing
• The Human Instinct - Decca Originals the Psychedelic Scene -- Day In My Minds Mind
• String Driven Thing - The Machine that Cried -- Heartfeeder
• David Bowie - Live -- Moonage Daydream
• T-Rex - Electric Warrior -- Jeepster
• Flo & Eddie - Moving Targets -- Keep it Warm
• Magma - Udu Wudu -- De Futura
• Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards -- Traveler in Time

Stonehenge Playlist 1-9-09

Happy 40th Birthday to the debut album from Led Zeppelin!

We don't need to bore you with the details of this album: suffice to say it took 36 hours to record, at a total cost of 1782 Great British Pounds. A bargain! And all captured on a 4 track recorder...

Here's some awesome rare stuff from the band on their first all-conquring tour of the USA in 1969:



This week, we also said a fond farewell to Ron Asheton, one of the most balls-out guitarists the world will ever know. See you around Ron!

Artist - Album -- Song

• Leafhound _ Growers of Mushrooms -- Drowned My Life in Fear
• Cactus - Cactus -- Let Me Swim
• Black Cat Bones - Black Cat Bones -- Save My Love
• Grand Funk - Survival -- Country Road
• Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come -- Kingdom Come
• The Koobas - The Koobas -- Barricades
• Free - Tons of Sobs -- The Hunter
• Jefferson Airplane - Long John Silver -- Trial by Fire
• Jeff Beck Group - Truth -- Let Me Love You
• Cream - Goodbye -- Politician
• Stooges - Funhouse -- Down on the Street
• Stooges - Stooges -- No Fun!
• Stooges - Raw Power / Rough Power -- Gimme Danger
• Stooges - Funhouse - Loose
• Stooges - Stooges -- I Wanna be you Dog
• Stooges - Funhouse -- TV Eye
• Iron Butterfly - Live -- Are you Happy
• Electric Flag - A Long Time Comin -- Killing Floor
• Jo Jo Gunne - Jo Jo Gunne -- 99 Days
• Ramatam - In April Came the Dawning of the Red Suns -- Down Range Party
• Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority -- South California Purples
• Savoy Brown - Lions' Share -- Shot in the Head
• Jimi Hendrix - First Rays of the New Rising Sun -- Earth Blues
• Blue Cheer - Outside Inside -- The Hunter
• The Strawbs - Bursting at the Seams -- Down by the Sea
• Van Der Graff Generator - The Least We Can do is Wave to each Other -- The White Hammer
• McDonald & Giles - McDonald & Giles -- Tomorrow's People - the Children of Today
• Focus - 3 -- Anonymus II - pt 1
• Horslips - Dance Hall Sweethearts -- King of the Fairies
• The Move - The Move -- Here we go round the Lemon Tree
• Gong - Cambert Electrique -- Tropical Fish / Selene
• Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs -- Here I Go
• Arzachel / Uriel - Arzachel / Uriel -- The Garden of Earthly Delights

Stonehenge Playlist 1-2-09... Happy New Year!

As we enter the New Year, the Stonehenge crew has a new resolution we want to share with you: in celebration of the 40th anniversary year of so many wonderful albums released in 1969, each classic rock album this year will be celebrating it's 40th birthday, as close to the week of release as possible! To begin the year in style, we played one of my favorite Fairport Convention LP's, their second LP, and the first with Sandy Denny - 'What we did on our Holidays'.

I feel that Fairport was about as close as the UK got to the Byrds: both bands even had their own indigenous folk music revelations with 'Liege and Leif' and 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo'. 'What we did on our Holidays' is the UK's '5th Dimension'.

There is a dearth of video from this period of the band's history, but here's a great Dylan cover from this excellent LP to sample. Dylan cover? That reminds me of a certain US band...

Artist - Album -- Song

• The Oxford Circle - Love is the Song we Sing -- Foolish Woman
• Steve Miller Band - Children of the Future -- Children of the Future
• Public Nuisance - Love is the Song we Sing -- America
• Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum -- Doctor Please
• The Savage Resurrection - The Savage Resurrection -- Thing in "E"
• Audience - Audience -- Heaven was an Island
• McPhee - McPhee -- Indian Rope Man
• 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere -- Slip Inside This House
• Can - Monster Movie -- Outside my Door
• Jeff Beck - Beck-Ola -- Spanish Boots
• The Illusion - If It's So -- Man
• McCoys - Human Ball -- Human Ball Blues
• Vanilla Fudge - Best Of -- Shotgun (single)
• Chocolate Watch Band - No Way -- No Way Out
• Soft Machine - Vol. 1 -- Save Yourself
• The Byrds - Younger than Yesterday -- Thoughts and Words
• Small Faces - Small Faces -- Talk to You
• Love - De Capo -- She Comes in Colors
• Moby Grape - Wow --- Can't be so Bad
• The Monkees - Head -- Circle Sky
• The Electric Flag - You are what you eat -- Freak Out
• Procol Harum - Procol Harum -- Kaleidoscope
• Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy -- Singing a Song in the Morning
• Arthur Brown - Crazy World of Arthur Brown -- Prelude / Nightmare
• Five Day Week Straw People - Five Day Week Straw People -- Car Wash
• Atomic Rooster - Atomic Rooster -- Before Tomorrow
• Hard Stuff - Bolex Dementia -- Bolex Dementia
• Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy -- Trilogy
• Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord -- Departure / Ride My See Saw
• Graham Bond Organization - We Put Our Majick on You -- Ajama
• Crack the Sky - Live Sky -- She's a Dancer
• Happy the Man - Happy the Man -- Stumpy meets the firecracker in Stencil Forest
• Gentle Giant - Civilian -- Convenience
• Camel - Rain Songs -- Metrognome
• Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton -- Let it Rain
• Delaney & Bonnie & Friends - On Tour with Eric Clapton -- Only You Know and I Know
• Delaney & Bonnie - To Bonnie from Delaney -- Soul Shake
• Delaney & Bonnie - D & B Together -- Coming Home
• Delaney & Bonnie & Friends -- On Tour with Eric Clapton -- I don't want to discuss it
• Delaney & Bonnie - D & B Together -- Sound of the City
• Delaney & Bonnie & Friends - On Tour with Eric Clapton -- Where there's a will there's a way